Dealing with "close variant" matching and singular keywords

Ok previously you could remove the option to have close variants match to be more in control of your keywords. However, Google announces that:

"Starting in late September, we’re applying close variant keyword matching to all exact and phrase match keywords"

So i then see that it is hard to deal with singular keywords. In my search terms reports my plural exact keywords are triggering singular keywords via (close variant).

Am i correct in saying that I now have to go through and add an exact match singular negative to prevent singular keywords triggering my adds? This is a huge task and a serious error on behalf of google.

Note: I don't like singular keywords as our market sells to bulk buyers, not individuals wanting one unit.

Dealing with "close variant" matching and singular keywords

Thanks you confirming that. Yes adding them is relatively easy but I need to go through manually and decide which need adding. In fact a very time consuming process and one that could cause entire campaign problems if done in a rush.

The beauty of Adwords is that it allows a lot of adjustment and puts those ahead that do more work and target well rather than just being a bid factory. Slowly these are being removed to make it more level which is not conducive to a good market.

For example when they changed broad match and then said, if you want it to work in the old way, go back and change everything to broad modifier with a "+". That was totally backwards. It should have been, use "+" if you want your board match to be broader.

Google is taking their cake and eating it. It will come back to bite them I am sure some day.

Dealing with "close variant" matching and singular keywords

Hope, it won't. However, I also do prefer scenarios when advertisers themselves have more options to choose from. Like when you had the option to remove close variants as you mentioned above. However, Google needs to go with the bulk; after all it's a corporation and not a charity.